Chapter 26: Mid-Autumn Festival

"Oh, it's going to be the Mid-Autumn Festival......"

Kaifeng Mansion, Zhuxian Town, on the second floor of a secluded inn, a fierce man with a disheveled head, unkempt beard, and a face that was so vicissitudes that it was almost difficult to distinguish his age, leaned against the window with a wine jug and sighed to the moon.

"You can't go back, how about I accompany you for the Mid-Autumn Festival?"

A clear, peaceful voice suddenly sounded from the darkness outside the window.

"You're finally here!"

The sturdy man glanced out the window, then lifted the flask and poured a big mouthful, with no different color between his eyebrows.

"Are you waiting for me?"

The man whispered in the dark.

The sturdy man drooped his eyelids and replied weakly: "Yes, I've been waiting for you all the way, and I thought you weren't coming......"

I heard a slight sound like a pebble falling on the tile, and an agile figure deftly climbed out of the window and sat down opposite the sturdy man.

"Boom."

The visitor silently put the two jars of wine on the dining table without saying a word.

The sturdy man carefully looked at the hair on the other side, and after a while, he suddenly smiled and said, "Is this scar on your face left by my fourth uncle?" ”

The laughter is broken, the voice is hoarse, and the tastes are mixed.

"It's not."

The person who came responded softly: "It was created by Bai Mujiu, a member of the Ming Sect." ”

The sturdy man laughed silently when he heard this, bowed his head and said, "Very good, your jade-faced fox's nickname is not destroyed in the hands of my Xie family." ”

After a pause, he looked at the two jars of wine on the table, and asked casually and softly, "Is this a send-off wine?" ”

The man squirmed his lips, as if he wanted to say something, but when the words were about to come out, he swallowed them back.

He was silent for a moment, raised his hand without saying a word, and slowly uncovered the mud seals of the two jars of wine.

He pushed a jar of wine in front of the fierce man, and said in a very clumsy and agitated tone: "I said this is a send-off wine, do you dare to drink it?" ”

The sturdy man looked at the wine jar in front of him, then at the familiar and unfamiliar face on the other side, and shook his head vigorously: "Don't dare, don't dare!" ”

The eyelids that had just been raised by the visitor drooped again, and he grabbed the wine jar in front of him, and poured a large mouthful of it with his head up.

"Boom!"

He slammed the wine jar on the dining table, wiped the corners of his mouth, raised his sparkling eyes to look directly at the person opposite, and said vigorously one by one: "You and I have known each other since childhood, and we have not fought less and drunk less wine, and it may be a bit hypocritical to call me a brother, but it is definitely not an exaggeration to say a word of close friends!" ”

"What kind of business does embroidered clothes and guards do, I don't need to say, you also understand!"

"If what your Xie family did was just some things such as selling officials and smuggling and selling stolen goods, I will handle your Xie family, then I will be unkind and unrighteous and unrecognizable to my six relatives!"

"But what you Xie family did was a fucking affair of fornication, hatred, and betrayal of the country for glory!"

"What would you do if it were you?"

"The corpses of the 50,000 soldiers who died in the first battle of Songting Pass are not cold, and their death-defying howls are still echoing in my ears all night......"

"What can I do?"

The lean figure lowered his eyes, not daring to look directly into the eyes of the visitor.

After a long while, he stretched out his palm, trembled and lifted the wine jar in front of him, and poured it violently, and the crystal wine gushed out, wetting his cheeks and his clothes.

"Well said!"

He put down the jar and laughed hysterically with red eyes and a distorted face, "What can I do? I can only watch my best friend kill my whole family! ”

The person who came lifted the wine jar again and poured a big sip, and said with a sigh of wine: "I never thought of making your Xie family full of people, I have always been giving your family a chance, but unfortunately, no one wants it, and everyone has to go all the way to the dark ...... You may feel that it's a big deal to die! ”

The sturdy man smiled so much that his face was full of water, and he didn't know if it was wine or tears: "You don't have a backache when you stand and talk, it's all over that, is there a difference between half of the death and the death of the whole family?" Of course, you have to risk your life to fight, won't Bo be okay if you win? ”

The person who came also laughed: "Since you know everything, then you come to teach me, what else can I do except send my best friend to the execution ground?" ”

The fierce man seemed to be laughed at angrily, and leaned forward and backwards tremblingly: "I, Xie Yu, can know you Shen Fan in this life, I am really lucky to have three lives!" ”

The person who came raised the wine jar and signaled to him: "If there is another life, don't know me!" ”

The sturdy man grabbed the wine jar and took a sip of it, and said softly with tears: "Don't know you, this taste, it's too painful, too tormenting......"

The people who came carried the wine jar and stared at the friends who were heroic and high-spirited like a champion in the past, but now they are unkempt and discouraged like a lost dog, and their hearts are also tormented.

After a while, he put down the wine jar and said in a low voice: "You go, take those elites under you, go to the Western Regions, go to Lingnan, go to Dongying, and you can fight for a place anywhere...... Just don't go back to Beijing, I don't want to kill my best friend! ”

The fierce man hissed as if crying and laughing: "I want to leave too, but I can't just watch you kill me all over the house!" ”

The person who came frowned: "Why don't you understand, you are just a knife, someone is provoking you to die, so as to keep their glory and wealth!" ”

"I know!"

The sturdy man slumped on his back in his chair: "From the time I took the brothers of the Fenwu Battalion out of Liaodong, I knew that we were a knife, and some people hoped that we could return to Shangjing and kill him upside down...... But what can I do? ”

The person who came finally showed his first smile here, this guy is still so alert, like a wolf, ruthless and accurate, never letting go of any fighter.

It's a pity that they instinctively fought side by side until the last moment of their lives......

As if he had made up some kind of determination, he suddenly lifted the wine jar and poured a big mouthful, and said fiercely: "Give your people to me, your people, I will save them!" ”

The sturdy man looked up at him steadily.

The people who came couldn't take their eyes off him.

After a while, the sturdy man finally smiled and said: "Shen Er, Shen Er, you are still so cowardly and soft-hearted, if you don't change, you will die a miserable death!" ”

This smile, on his dirty face, was exceptionally clean.

The visitor also smiled and said, "What can I do?" ”

He didn't care whether his friends were happy or not, he touched the wine jar in front of him when he mentioned the wine jar, raised his head and poured a sip, and said with a sigh of wine: "If you pass through the enemy, the principal, or the official or general, don't be delusional, women, children, I will try my best to help them find a way to live, it won't be too good, I can only ensure that they can live!" ”

The sturdy man laughed, "Can I still trust you?" ”

Shen Fa looked directly at him: "You can believe it or not...... It's a big deal, when you get to Jiuquan, I'll make amends to you again! ”

The sturdy man leaned back in his chair again, raised his head to look directly at the cobwebs on the beams, and muttered to himself, "With your words, it will not be in vain for me to wait for you this way." ”

He stretched out his big dirty hand, and under Shen Fan's nervous gaze, he gently tapped his fingers on the table three times.

In the next second, several high-spirited men wearing iron armor and waist hanging rings jumped up to the second floor, hugged their fists in front of the fierce man and said, "General! ”

In the dark, countless fingers nervously rested on the trigger of the crossbow.

The sturdy man was unconscious, and pointed at the person opposite loosely, and said casually: "Remember this person, as long as this person continues to fight with the Tartar in the future, you will listen to him, even if he wants you to go to the grassland to die, you will listen to him!" ”

"But if one day he turns against the water, even if he is only suspected of turning against the water, you will immediately cut off his head and kill his whole family!"

The murderous words, but the hearts of the people who came suddenly relaxed.

He lifted the wine jar and said to the sturdy man seriously: "I, Shen Fan, can be friends with you Xie Yu in this life, and I am fortunate to have three lives!" ”

The sturdy man sneered, not moving.

The person who came didn't mind, raised his head and drank the wine in the jar, and stood up drunk: "But in this life, we won't see each other again......"

The tough man waved his hand lazily: "If you don't see it, you won't see it, but you must remember what you said, one less, I will never die with you in this life!" ”

The person who came sneered and jumped out of the window: "Who is afraid of death, I am only afraid, without you as a friend......"

The sturdy man was silent for a long time before he lifted the wine jar in front of him: "I'm sorry, old friend!" ”